Network Services - Load Balancer

Question 1

Load Balancer/Content Switch

Answer 1

Distributes incoming requests across a number of servers inside a server farm or a cloud infrastructure. One of the key things to help defend against a DoS or DDoS attack

Question 2

Denial of Service (DoS)

Answer 2

Involves a continual flooding of victim systems with requests for services, causing the system to crash (single attacker)

Question 3

Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS)

Answer 3

Multiple machines simultaneously launch attacks on the server to force it offline (multiple attackers)

Question 4

Blackholing/Sinkholing

Answer 4

Identifies any attacking IP addresses and routes their traffic through a null interface

Question 5

Elastic Cloud

Answer 5

Allows to scale up the demand as needed